Hispaniola

A borrowing of Peter Martyr's Latin Hispaniola (equivalent to Hispania +‎ -ola), used in his Decades to translate De las Casas's Spanish Española (in a more latinized form), a clipping of la Isla Española (“the Spanish Island”), translating Columbus's Latin Insula Hispania, bestowed upon its discovery in 1492. Doublet of Española.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɪsˌpæniˈəʊlə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhɪspənˈjoʊlə/, /hɪsˌpæniˈoʊlə/
• Rhymes: -əʊlə

Hispaniola

1. An island of the Caribbean, divided politically into the independent nations of Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

• Española (uncommon); Haiti, Haïti, Hayti, San Domingo, Santo Domingo (obsolete or historical)

• Greater Antilles

• Hispaniola pine (Pinus occidentalis)

• Hispaniola on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• nasophilia

Borrowed from Latin Hispāniola, a latinisation of Spanish la Española.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [is.pə.niˈɔ.lə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [is.pa.niˈɔ.la]

Hispaniola f

1. Hispaniola (an island of the Caribbean)

Borrowed from Latin Hispāniola, a latinisation of Spanish la Española.

• IPA^(key): /is.pa.njɔ.la/

Hispaniola f

1. Hispaniola (an island of the Caribbean Sea)

• Haitian Creole: Ispayola

• Ispaniola

Hispaniola f

1. Hispaniola

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [is.pa.niˈɔː.la]

Hispaniōla f sg (genitive Hispaniōlae); first declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Haitia
• Rēspūblica Dominicāna

Hispaniola f

1. Hispaniola (an island of the Caribbean)

   Synonyms: Ilha de São Domingos, Espanhola